When we see people as losers, we treat them with contempt. When we see them as lost, we treat them with compassion.

In his opinion, all the world’s misfortunes stemmed from the countless untruths, both deliberate and unintentional, which people told because of haste or carelessness.

Let your gift of positive influence to be roused and spread like a wildfire from the east to the west and from the south to the north. All nations are waiting for it.

Sometimes I feel like rap music is almost the key to stopping racism.

Well, we're all going to die, so mortality is a part of writing and life.

It's hard not to tell the truth with a camera. Artists are particularly good at that.

I have no advice for anybody; except to, you know, be awake enough to see where you are at any given time, and how that is beautiful, and has poetry inside. Even places you hate.

She wanted a book to take her places she couldn't get to herself.

All of those faeries and duels and mad queens and so on, and no one quoted old Billy Shakespeare. Not even once.

But if we judge only those things which are in our power to be good or bad, there remains no reason either for finding fault with God or standing in a hostile attitude to man.

Good ideas have no value because the world already has too many of them. The market rewards execution, not ideas.